| Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Mangeliidae |
| Genus: | Pseudorhaphitoma |
| Species: | P. darnleyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi (Brazier, 1876) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Pseudorhaphitoma darnleyi is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 12 mm.
(Original description) The slender pyramidal shell is acuminated. It is six-sided, horny brown, longitudinally ribbed, crossed with raised striae, somewhat rugose and with smooth interstices. The shell contains 7-8 flattened whorls. The suture is opaque. The sculpture is much plainer on the body whorl. The inner lip shows a thin deposit of callus. The outer lip is thin, edged with black. The sinus is wide, cut deep down. The siphonal canal is short. [2]
The slender, six-sided shell has a pyramidal shape. It is longitudinally ribbed and crossed with raised striae, somewhat rugose, interstices smooth. It contains 7 to 8 flattened whorls. The outer lip is slightly varicose. The sinus is wide and deep. The color is yellowish brown, the lip sometimes black-edged. [3]
This species is remarkable by the absence of fine grained spirals and is by this an aberrant members of this genus. [4]
This marine genus is endemic to Australia and occurs in the Gulf of Carpentaria and off Queensland, Australia
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